Edward Watson to retire as Royal Ballet principal dancer
Watson, whose final performance in a new Wayne McGregor production has been postponed by Covid, will join the company's team of coaches He has stunned Covent Garden audiences as the doomed Prince Mayerling, a tormented Leontes in The Winter's Tale, Lewis Carroll's bewigged White Rabbit and a gloop-smeared Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis. But after 15 years as a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, Edward Watson …